Pakistan may take on India for a three-match one-day series next month amid concerns that a tour by Australia might be postponed over security fears, an official said Thursday.

"We have received positive signals from India on a short series as part of our efforts to fill the gap created by shortening our home series against Australia," Shafqat Naghmi, chief operating officer Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), told AFP from Kuala Lumpur.

Naghmi and other PCB officials went to India last week and proposed the series, which would be played between March 12 and 18 in Lahore.